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Alexander Morus (or Moir or More) (25 September 1616, Castres - 28 September 1670, Paris) was a Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher. ==Biography== More's father, born in Scotland, was a rector at a Huguenot college in the small village of Castres in Languedoc.〔Wiep van Bunge, ''The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750'', BRILL 2003, ISBN 90-04-13587-1, page, 23-29〕 In 1636 he left to study theology in Geneva, where he became professor in Greek in 1639. By 1648, he was professor of theology, pastor and dean of the Academy in Geneva. He was an Amyraldist, and ran into trouble in Geneva where his orthodoxy was suspect. He was appointed successor to Friedrich Spanheim, but then was forced to leave Geneva.〔Hubert Cunliffe-Jones, ''History of Christian Doctrine'' (2006), p. 427.〕 He was working in the Netherlands in the 1650s. In 1654, John Milton launched a vitriolic attack upon him, in his ''Defensio Secunda'', in the mistaken belief that he was the author of an anonymous Royalist work containing a "rabid" attack on Milton, called ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum'' (Cry of the King's blood to Heaven). Morus replied with ''Fides Publica'' in 1654, published like the ''Regii sanguinis'' by Adriaan Vlacq (also attacked by Milton).〔Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ''The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography'' (2002), p. 321.〕 Milton then launched a second attack after Morus's reply. The true authorship of the ''Regii sanguinis'', written by Pierre Du Moulin, sent to Salmasius and only seen into print by Morus, came out in 1670.〔William Riley Parker, Gordon Campbell (editors), ''Milton'' (1996), p. 612.〕 He was professor of ecclesiastical history at Amsterdam from 1652 to 1659, and pastor at Charenton for the last year of his life.〔''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'', article ''Alexander More''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Morus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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